when questioned by police, none of the hotel employees recalled seeing shirley leave that morning. family members and friends were shocked to learn that shirley was even in key west. i was the last person to see shirley. and we really didn t talk about shirley leaving town. shirley told me nothing about going away. nothing. they mentioned that shirley liked to wear expensive jewelry, and this could have made her a target. we told the police that shirley would probably have on her diamond earrings, the rings that she would have on and that she had a rolex watch. police brought in a specially trained dog to assist in the search. we had the k-9 dog try to track shirley through some of the clothing that was in the hotel room. crime scene investigators collected evidence inside the hotel and dusted for fingerprints. but they found no foreign
most of the couple s assets were in shirley s name. to me, it appeared that she was financially stable, and he was financially in trouble. it wasn t until shortly before she disappeared that i ever heard her say anything even remotely unkind about him. and friends told police that shirley was planning to leave mike. she felt that he was financially irresponsible. shirley said that she was planning to leave the area, and mike would not be going with her. to keep tabs on mike s whereabouts, police secretly put a global positioning satellite receiver underneath his car. these days, police no longer follow suspects. satellites do it, instead. it is recording constantly and sending a beacon back to a computer, which allowed it to be tracked at all times and allowed for covert surveillance of
pick up a prescription for his wife. when he returned an hour later, shirley was gone. he thought maybe his wife went to a restaurant for breakfast or might have taken a walk down to the beach. it was also possible that shirley simply went shopping. shirley was a world-class shopper. would spend hours talking and shopping and come home with having purchased absolutely nothing, but we would have considered it a very successful shopping day. but when he found his wife s purse in the hotel room, he suspected something was wrong. after several hours had passed, mike called the police department to report her missing. yes, this is mike garvin. i m calling about my wife. she just went out to walk. she said she was going to walk by the ocean or something. okay, so there s someone missing?
fingerprints in the room, and the dog couldn t pick up shirley s scent anywhere outside the room. the next day, the local newspaper ran the story. it was a missing persons story. the story in the headlines and the questions were, what happened to shirley garvin? media reports generated several potential sightings, but none were shirley. police continued to search the entire island of key west, which is only six square miles. and they found a pair of women s sandals on the beach, which looked similar to ones shirley wore, leading to speculation that shirley may have had a swimming accident. and investigators learned another troubling fact. mike garvin s previous wife had committed suicide by hanging herself in the basement of their home. mike was the one who found her body.
pick up a prescription for his wife. when he returned an hour later, shirley was gone. he thought maybe his wife went to a restaurant for breakfast or might have taken a walk down to the beach. it was also possible that shirley simply went shopping. shirley was a world-class shopper, would spend hours talking and shopping and come home with having purchased absolutely nothing, but we would have considered it a very successful shopping day. but when he found her purse in the hotel room, he suspected something was wrong. after several hours had passed, mike called the police department to report her missing. yes, this is mike garvin. i m calling about my wife. she just went out to walk. she said she was going to walk by the ocean or something. okay, so there s someone missing? when questioned by police, none of the hotel employees recalled seeing shirley leave